[Newbies] Animations and sprites in squeak

2006-10-02 Thread Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas
Hi all, I'm thinking in making some kind of RPG game, just for fun in Squeak, with the same feeling of The Flight of the Amazon Queen[1] and the same visual appareance [2]. I think that this can be made with sprites and animations in Squeak. So here come my questions 1. How can I indicate

[Newbies] Problem at www.squeak.org ?

2006-10-02 Thread Luis
Hiya, It this affecting everyone else? Haven't been able to get into the Squeak website for two days now. I had assumed a 'minor' outage as the updates were pushed through for 3.9, but now it looks a little worrying! Cheers, Luis. ___ Beginners

[Newbies] Problem at www.squeak.org ? - Part 2...

2006-10-02 Thread Luis
Ooopsy, should have done this earlier. Checked the Weekly Squeak (http://weeklysqueak.wordpress.com/): Squeak.org is down September 28th, 2006 Since yesterday, the servers hosting the various *.squeak.org and *.squeakfoundation.org service are offline. They soon will be online again, but

[Newbies] general questions about squeak

2006-10-02 Thread Esteban Robles Luna
Hi, I`m new in squeak, but not in smalltalk. I have some questions about the environment of squeak that will help me to understand it. - Firstly, I would like to know how the startup process of squeak is, as detailed as possible. - Second, MVC projects are just wrapped from morphic?. Later I will

[Newbies] Squeak for kids - eToys, Scratch, Alice ?

2006-10-02 Thread itsme213
What are the options to get kids (7-10) using Squeak? I have see eToys, Scratch, Alice. Are there others? Any recommendations on which to choose? I want something that they can start with easily, but that will grow with them at least for a while. Thanks.

Re: [Newbies] Squeak for kids - eToys, Scratch, Alice ?

2006-10-02 Thread stephane ducasse
http://smallwiki.unibe.ch/botsinc but more for 9 or 10 stef On 2 oct. 06, at 16:15, itsme213 wrote: What are the options to get kids (7-10) using Squeak? I have see eToys, Scratch, Alice. Are there others? Any recommendations on which to choose? I want something that they can start with

Re: [Newbies] SqueakSource vs SqueakMap

2006-10-02 Thread stephane ducasse
SqueakSource = Sourceforge Squeakmap = catalog to deploy app So use SqueakSource and MC to develop with multiple people and you can deploy if you want using SqueakMap Stef On 2 oct. 06, at 20:51, Simon Guest wrote: Hi, Please could someone characterise the different intended use of

Re: [Newbies] Squeak for kids - eToys, Scratch, Alice ?

2006-10-02 Thread itsme213
From: stephane ducasse [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://smallwiki.unibe.ch/botsinc but more for 9 or 10 Thanks Stef. We are already using BotsInc and liked it a lot! I am looking to move towards building things with richer models and hoping (ideally :-) it can be done with a kid-friendly toolkit

Re: [Newbies] Squeak for kids - eToys, Scratch, Alice ?

2006-10-02 Thread Brad Fuller
itsme213 wrote: From: stephane ducasse [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://smallwiki.unibe.ch/botsinc but more for 9 or 10 Thanks Stef. We are already using BotsInc and liked it a lot! I am looking to move towards building things with richer models and hoping (ideally :-) it can be done with a

Re: [Newbies] Tweak question

2006-10-02 Thread Bert Freudenberg
There is no syntactic sugar in Tweak for this. A simple way to connect fields are FieldReferences. Off the top of my head, you would use it like this: balanceReadout player: (account fieldNamed: #value) This sets up all the events you need to synchronize balanceReadout's value

[Newbies] Re: Squeak for kids - eToys, Scratch, Alice ?

2006-10-02 Thread Luis
Scratch: http://weblogs.media.mit.edu/llk/scratch/ Not out yet... Cheers, Luis. ___ Beginners mailing list Beginners@lists.squeakfoundation.org http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/beginners